Of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the deal creating the Worlds Largest airline became official today. American airlines emerged from bankruptcy to join with u. S. Airways. The new carrier will operate under the American Airlines name. The merger leaves four airlines controlling more than 80 of the American Travel market. Passengers wont see immediate changes to reservations or frequent flyer programs, and it remains unclear if the deal will mean higher fares. Eight of the most prominent u. S. Tech companies, including apple, google and fac
Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the deal creating the Worlds Largest airline became official today. American airlines emerged from bankruptcy to join with u. S. Airways. The new carrier will operate under the American Airlines name. The merger leaves four airlines controlling more than 80 of the American Travel market. Passengers wont see immediate changes to reservations or frequent flyer programs, and it remains unclear if the deal will mean higher fares. Eight of the most prominent u. S. Tech companies, in
Two major fronts at the annual nato summit in wales. Leaders say they are building a coalition of nations to take on the threat of isis in iraq and in syria. The leaders also came down hard on rushia for supporting rebels in eastern ukraine. Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson has our report. Concern here from nato leaders that while there is a ceasefire agreed in ukraine, that this hey not become a reality as the peace is implemented. They note from the statement over president poroshenko here that important for him in his 12step plan is the independence territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine. That is something that the leaders here say wasnt present in what president putin had talked about in his sevenpoint plan for peace, that he had talked about a cessation of who is at this times, a removal of Ukrainian Forces from the southeast of ukraine, essentially ceding territory to the prorussian rebels annexation of that area. That according to the nato leaders here
Consider this a violation of cuban air space. So cuba had to scramble a jet. We know the u. S. Had scrambled f15 fighter jets. We sent a couple pilots up there just to try to get as close to this small aircraft as they could to see what they could. And what they reportedly saw was the pilot inside of the plane in the cockpit, initially breathing. Then they saw the pilot slumped over. And then they saw frosted windows. We now have sound from one of those f15 fighter jet one of those pilots. This is precisely what he saw. See his chest rising and falling. This is the first time we could see he was actually breathing. And it may be a deal where compensating on how fast they descend he may regain consciousness once the aircraft starts descending for fuel starvation. Let me begin with rene marsh in our coverage here as far as what we know, the location of this plane crash. Rene, what are you learning . Well, brooke, we are getting more information from the faa. We know that as you reset the
Elise abbott is joining us from the state department. I understand a top al shabab leader in somalia was killed by a u. S. Air strike. The pentagon announced moments ago the leader of Al Shabab Ahmed Godane was killed by a u. S. Air strike on september 1st. The u. S. Had been looking for him in some time. In january, there were drone strikes trying to kill him. One of his top commanders was killed but he was not. So this week the u. S. Government was trying to be very clear, wanted that dna evidence that, in fact, he was killed. And theyre calling this, wolf, a major symbolic and operational loss for this group. The president at his News Conference in wales just moments ago, he specifically mentioned that this top al shabab, al qaedarelated terrorist was killed by the u. S. Was this a separate strike or the strike we had been reporting on over the past few days . Its the same strike weve been reporting about all week. It was this major meeting of top commanders of godane and his top co